{"id":310,"date":"2017-10-17T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-political-science\/john-sankara\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:14:07","slug":"john-sankara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/studentopportunities\/chuck-green-fellowship\/past\/2013-2\/john-sankara\/","title":{"rendered":"John Sankara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John Sankara\u20142013 Fellow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/589\/2013\/08\/johnsankara.jpg\" alt=\"John Sankara\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Year: Class of 2015<br>Organization: Meda &amp; African Development Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent my summer learning about financial education and financial services. At Meda, I worked on a research project where I investigated the organization\u2019s impact in the minority-owned business landscape based on metrics such as job creation and business growth. I also organized a series of financial literacy workshops in partnership with Hope Street homeless shelter and a small group from the Brian Coyle Center. The workshops were primarily aimed at high school and college-age youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CGF has been highly rewarding. I was particularly impressed with and challenged by the discussions in the classroom setting which helped form a solid theoretical base for our eventual projects. In all, the fellowship places a crucial emphasis on self-direction and proactivity \u2013 two very key personal skills for future community leaders.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sankara\u20142013 Fellow Year: Class of 2015Organization: Meda &amp; African Development Center I spent my summer learning about financial education and financial services. At Meda, I worked on a research project where I investigated the organization\u2019s impact in the minority-owned business landscape based on metrics such as job creation and business growth. I also organized [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":270,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-310","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310\/revisions\/1831"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}